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Message-ID: <68da3932-10ab-4001-a978-f0f54034a64d@riseup.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:57:13 -0300
From: Maira Canal <mairacanal@...eup.net>
To: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>, rodrigosiqueiramelo@...il.com,
melissa.srw@...il.com, hamohammed.sa@...il.com, daniel@...ll.ch,
dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com,
mripard@...nel.org, tzimmermann@...e.de, sean@...rly.run
Cc: thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
seanpaul@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VKMS Maintainer
On 9/10/24 12:10, Louis Chauvet wrote:
> I've been actively working on VKMS to provide new features and
> participated in reviews and testing. To help Maìra with her work, add
> myself as co-maintainer of VKMS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>
Acked-by: Maíra Canal <mairacanal@...eup.net>
Please, check the procedures to apply for commit rights in drm-misc and
apply it. This way you will be able to commit your patches.
Thanks for volunteering!
Best Regards,
- Maíra
> ---
> Hi everyone,
>
> This series [1] has been waiting for a while now, it was proposed first in
> February. The first iterations had few reactions (thanks to Arthur, Pekka,
> Maìra, ...), but since v8 (in May) no major issues were reported, Maìra
> seemed satisfied, and only minor cosmetic changes were reported. Two other
> series ([2] and [3]), that I submitted first in May, did not have receive
> any reactions.
>
> In addition, there is also some significant addition to VKMS being
> proposed, such as ConfigFS support, and without a clear maintainer having
> the time to review and approve these changes, these changes have very
> little changes to get in.
>
> VKMS is not a fundamental driver for "normal" Linux users, but I had some
> feedback from userspace developpers that VKMS could be a very good testing
> tool if only it had more features (I think P0xx formats were asked to
> test HDR for example). This could also help to detect issues in DRM core
> by emulating a wide range of configurations.
>
> I believe the only active maintainer is Maìra, but as she's mentioned before,
> she doesn't have much time to work on VKMS. So, I'd like to volunteer as a
> maintainer. I have plenty of time to dedicate to VKMS.
>
> I hope I've gained enough understanding of VKMS to be helful with this role.
> I am eager to move forward and improve this subsystem. I've also talked to Sean
> about this, and he agrees that it would be good if I could commit code to
> drm-misc.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240809-yuv-v10-0-1a7c764166f7@bootlin.com/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814-b4-new-color-formats-v2-0-8b3499cfe90e@bootlin.com/
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814-writeback_line_by_line-v2-0-36541c717569@bootlin.com/
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 10430778c998b57944c1a6c5f07d676127e47faa..62f10356e11ab7fa9c8f79ba63b335eb6580d0a8 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -7340,6 +7340,7 @@ DRM DRIVER FOR VIRTUAL KERNEL MODESETTING (VKMS)
> M: Rodrigo Siqueira <rodrigosiqueiramelo@...il.com>
> M: Melissa Wen <melissa.srw@...il.com>
> M: Maíra Canal <mairacanal@...eup.net>
> +M: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>
> R: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@...il.com>
> R: Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
> L: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
>
> ---
> base-commit: da3ea35007d0af457a0afc87e84fddaebc4e0b63
> change-id: 20240910-vkms-maintainer-7b3d2210cc1b
>
> Best regards,
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